17 search results for: Elaine Hnatyshyn

With respect to elected officials, I have a personal rule to restrict any critique of them to decisions made in their elected capacity, and their personal life and family members are off limits. The exception to the rule is when the elected person injects their family members and/or personal issues into the controversy. Such is...

Isolated? Bored? If the walls are moving in on you, maybe it is time to read the handwriting on them. What I am reading on my walls is not nearly as amusing as the messages left on bathroom stalls. We now live in a world where people are not concerned about debt and the impact...

I am pleased to announce that I am jumping with joy, having been jabbed with the Pfizer vaccine. Not only that, but the process of receiving the vaccination went smoothly and efficiently. I am almost at the point of being a little forgiving of the provincial government and its handling of the COVID pandemic, because...

Where to start? 2020 is behind us and hope for renewal in 2021 beckons. Aside from the development of the COVID vaccine, you could hear a global sigh of relief when Joe Biden was finally sworn in as the president of the United States of America and the devil incarnate was ousted from the White...

When the COVID crisis started last spring and brought about the shutdown and isolation, I was annoyed, but quickly got to the state of acceptance. If this is the way it had to be to safeguard ourselves, our families and society from a devasting virus, then so be it. Back then, and it seems like...

Saskatoon city council’s position on some of its public facilities is nothing short of absurd. We “hire” city councillors through a civic election process to manage and maintain the city and plan its growth. We do not expect them to abdicate their responsibilities to boards comprised of appointed citizens, that are not of our choosing,...

Well, the race is on and it looks like, ah, hmmm, same old, same old. So far, we have six candidates running for Saskatoon’s top job. Incumbent Mayor Charlie Clark, former mayor Don Atchison, former provincial cabinet minister Rob Norris, and three that are new gladiators in the arena, engineer Zubair Sheikh, consultant Cary Tarasoff...

Too many mornings I have awoken wondering whether I am still caught in a horrific nightmare or whether I have been transported into another universe. I’m not talking about COVID-19, or wearing face masks, or social distancing or living within my little cluster. That is the new normal. I’m talking about the lackadaisical attitude of...

A few friends and I planned a trip to New York City for late September 2001. Then, 9/11 occurred. Although people at home were aghast, we still journeyed to NYC after the attack. We figured NYC would be the safest place to go, as it would be on high alert from the federal, state and...

So, how is life in your hidey-hole? Were it not for the kindness of friends sending gallows humour video clips and cartoons, I would be asking my doctor to prescribe me Prozac. These last two months have brought real meaning to “You don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone.” What is gone from life...